I loved it. Newman laughing/choking after the verdict. Puddy agreeing not to wait for Elaine. Mrs. Castanza passing out. They're real and they're spectacular. Judge Vandelay. Bubble Boy and the trivial pusuit argument continuation. 😂😂😂
It was a great finale. They ended up in a prison of their own making and without hesitation continued on with talking about nothing. I got it immediately. Brilliant !
I loved the finale. The only problem I can understand is from people who watched it back in 1998 who had to deal with a one hour clip show followed by the finale which was another one hour clip show. I think the first clip show made it seem worse
@@alphanerd7221they do it all the time in Canada and parts of California and New York. Look at the colleges. You can’t even protest against the war now without fearing for your future. Freedom of speech is a meme now and comics saw that coming well before you or I. That’s the point of it all
It'll forever be the most underrated finale ever. There are deleted portions w/even more returning guest stars that would've greatly improved it. And the callback to the first episode: the best.
And Larry intertwined the finale of Curb with the Seinfeld finale. I especially loved Ted Danson on the plane at the very end of Curb, a callback to George complaining in the Seinfeld finale about NBC not giving them the same plane Ted Danson gets.
@@user-sm1ib8bb8rOP never said anything about then being bad people, he just likes the finale like I do. It brought back a lot of people like Soup Nazi, Mr Pitt, Babu and others.
I'd watch it. Most of the cast is still alive, too. At least all the main characters thankfully. Curb filled the Seinfeld void nicely for a while, similar style.
I always thought the finale was intentionally crappy. Sort of a way of saying that if they kept going at that point that the show would’ve just been reaching for these wild premises and wouldn’t have been remembered as fondly as it has been. In other words, it was time to end it.
I thought the finale was perfect. The rule at the beginning was, "No learning, no hugging at the end of any episode." So of course the end of the series must have no learning no hugging. The joke was on us. And Jerry and Larry played it perfectly.
I like it if you look at the end of Season 7 when Susan dies and they're all at the hospital. "Toxic glue huh? So who wants lunch?" It's almost a sitcom horror movie ending. They all engaged and ate lunch with this woman, she helped them try and get a pilot off the ground. All for less than 5 seconds of reaction to her death and back to their selfish back and forths. The ending does actually kind of work.
I don't think that the narrative that Seinfeld characters are bad was invented by the critics. Look at George, but not just him. Jerry not performing cpr and so on. Plus if you wanna dig deeper, the reason you can't see they were bad is because our society changed because of the series. And that is NOT coincidental
Last episodes are always tricky. Fans & producers want closure, but shows end because the juice is gone and a fin'ally is just trying to squeeze more out of it.
Such an underappreciated episode. It was genius. No other TV show in history had such memorable support characters, and so many of them, and the finale highlighted this accomplishment
It was a good finale of the show had to end, but I just wish it had gone on for a few more seasons. I thoroughly enjoyed curb after Seinfeld ended, but it took a while to get used to
I totally understood the ending… but by that point we all fell in love with these selfish characters and didn’t see the need for punishment at that point. I love rewatching Elaine cuz she was the only female on tv without stigma of motherhood, children and marriage.. she just did her! Period! Loved it all
The finale was ingenious...the opportunity for viewers to get one last time at seeing some of the unique characters we all enjoyed...it was gold, Jerry, gold.
The problem is that it was a show built on the premise that these characters are just like us, regular people. Not always all good. And then to punish them in the finale and call them bad in the finale was calling the viewer bad
The so-called "Good Samaritan law", in this case, would not have held up in court since the perpetrator was armed with a gun, making it unreasonable to intervene.
Seinfeld was as deep as a sheet of paper. It had its moments and clearly very successful but years on I have little interest in watching it ever again.
1. They never should have killed off Susan. 2. George and Susan should have just stayed friends like Jerry and Elaine. 3. They should have ended the series like the episode where they're all on the subway going to different destinations. They still could have still included everyone in the last episode. THAT would have been the perfect finale❤
I liked when Jason Alexander talked about if there would be a scene where they finished their prison sentence they would meet at the coffee shop and the first thing that anyone would say would be George saying ,”that was brutal”
I felt the show could’ve had a few more seasons, at least a season 10 to round out the even number and have one more season in the final year of the 90s so I can say I was born in the same year Seinfeld ended. That’s more of a me thing that last bit but still even tho it went on for 9 years and was before my time, still felt short lived and sad it didn’t have more eps. Although Curb came only 2 years after it ended and that’s super funny and who would’ve thought he would still make it today, although now that’s ending too sadly.
The ending was beautiful but I wish they came back. Its way more funnier than friends and more original and the other day shows. As a new yorker it had me rolling and i think its because of the dark humor 😂😂
This is a case of overblown expectation that is probably impossible to satisfy. I don’t care if it’s not the “best” finale, the show is a classic that doesn’t rest on how good the finale is. The fact they went to prison is a funny concept that they had coming, honestly. They were terrible people, but I love them, anyway.
I have a feeling Larry David is heading for something like this for his own finale on CYE. His inappropriate comments and behavior are getting worse and more selfish, and people are reacting more pointedly.
BTW, "the fat guy" that she refers to but doesn't name is John Pinette, who was a massively talented comedian in his own right. He has a lot of great content on youtube. Sadly, he died too soon in 2014, at age fifty.
I loved the finale! People need to remember this was NOT the typical sitcom! The only thing I was hoping they would write one more episode of them getting out!
I’ve always thought the finale was great and still love to watch it and laugh my butt off about it. The trial clearly shows what a depraved and self absorbed, egotistical, elitist group of maniacs they all four are 😅and them being thrown in prison for a life of Seinfeld insanity is utterly hilarious. But hey that’s me. Plus the Curb finale was a perfect TV ending for both LD and the Sein. So I’m good with all of that.
I liked the finale. No series before (or after, as far as I know) had ended with the main characters in jail: they always end up getting married, finding the job of their dreams, buying a new house... Nevertheless, I've always felt something was missing... After the veredict... Like if the high point of the story, the tension and the drama had not been reached yet... Like there was one last joke or crazy moment left... They timing of the episode was weird...
I am not a fan of this episode but I love the series. My argument to them being bad people is this, all of the insensitive or selfish acts they committed they always got thier comeuppance at the end of every episode. They were always being punished for what they did but they weren't always bad people. They were just people who sometimes made bad decisions. I wish it had just ended with them in Jerry's apartment or the diner with the joke at the end. Larry David who also wrote the last episode made up for it in his great Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale were Larry goes to court, ends up in jail but at the end Jerry picks him up after the verdict is overturned and they both realize that's how Seinfeld should have ended. But I love them both and when I binge watch the series I just skip this episode and image them in Manhattan living their crazy lives.
I agree. I didn’t think it was a good ending at all. They were just people that showed the things everyone can experience at times. Going to jail was a silly ending. I hated it.
Can we be honest? If it was funnier we wouldn't have cared what the premise was. While watching it (at the time) it felt forced and lacked the humour we loved from the other episodes.
the setup was a bit weak, but I didn’t mind the greatest-hits thing, but I really wish it hadn’t ended with them going to jail… how about they get acquitted on some frivolous, _Seinfeld_ -esque reason, or maybe the judge chokes to death on a Junior Mint or something, and the final scene is just them sitting at the coffee shop once again, talking about button placement?
I personally love the finally. Bringing back everyone to testify againt them and get them back was guinious and fit the shows tone. I was shocked when I heard long time ago people hated it. I was surprised.
I didn’t like the ending at the time, but saw the 2 final eps not long ago and really liked the way it ended. I think it was just overall disappointment that the show was ending.
I like how the very end is a callback to the first episode with jerry complaining about george’s shirt. To me it was perfect.
I watched it several times before it donned on me. It was beautiful symmetry
I never noticed I don’t think! Thanks!
Full circle
Brilliant writing
What about the other 99% of the episode tho?
I thought the laugh factory was the finale and Jerry bringing Kramer on Letterman was the epilogue
don’t let em break you kramer!
Jerry, I am racist, and I am LOVIN’ EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
@@zentazym1Giddyup!😂
He should have gotten Jackie Chiles to represent him😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Seinfeld should never have listened to the critics.
We live, we learn
critics are a-holes. That's common knowledge.
Larry David wrote it
I loved it. Newman laughing/choking after the verdict. Puddy agreeing not to wait for Elaine. Mrs. Castanza passing out. They're real and they're spectacular. Judge Vandelay. Bubble Boy and the trivial pusuit argument continuation. 😂😂😂
It was a great finale. They ended up in a prison of their own making and without hesitation continued on with talking about nothing. I got it immediately. Brilliant !
I loved the finale. The only problem I can understand is from people who watched it back in 1998 who had to deal with a one hour clip show followed by the finale which was another one hour clip show. I think the first clip show made it seem worse
Talking about nothing: the second button makes or breaks the shirt.
It was asinine. You can't jail someone for that.
Boring and not funny. It literally has two minute stretches with zero laughs. No other episode is that bad
@@alphanerd7221they do it all the time in Canada and parts of California and New York. Look at the colleges. You can’t even protest against the war now without fearing for your future. Freedom of speech is a meme now and comics saw that coming well before you or I. That’s the point of it all
It'll forever be the most underrated finale ever. There are deleted portions w/even more returning guest stars that would've greatly improved it. And the callback to the first episode: the best.
garbage
@@johnnybravado7141 Wow, what a hot take... 🙄
Larry David wrote the finale
Didn't Larry leave before the last season?
@@danielharden2570he left after season 7, but returned to write the finale.
They both wrote it David Brigade 🙄
Larry broke one of his cardinal rules in that episode. "No learning"
And Larry intertwined the finale of Curb with the Seinfeld finale. I especially loved Ted Danson on the plane at the very end of Curb, a callback to George complaining in the Seinfeld finale about NBC not giving them the same plane Ted Danson gets.
People will never be happy with a last episode.
I was
Expept friends
Breaking Bad
I'm happy with plenty of last episodes. This isn't one of them. Marry Tyler More, Cheers, Mad Men, GoT, 6 feet under, The Good Place.
Bingo. The only last episode people have no problem with, is Phineas and Ferb.
I liked the finale. It brought everything together.
Agreed 👍
@@user-sm1ib8bb8rOP never said anything about then being bad people, he just likes the finale like I do. It brought back a lot of people like Soup Nazi, Mr Pitt, Babu and others.
I agree. It was the show about nothing, and they ultimately went to jail for doing nothing.
@@SouthernMan72and that is stupid and not worth watching. going to jail for doing nothing? that's not justice at all.
My god will this doofus let her finish a sentence
honestly
Such a loser barstools worst & that's saying something
Hipster doofus
Most podcast interviewers are dogshit at the whole interview part
Her sentences rarely end tho. I'm a fan, but this I have observed. No shade, she's a talker for sure!❤🙏🏻😊
They should have continued making one episode per year for the last25 years. They could have been like a sitcom eqivalent of a superbowl every year
I wouldn't have objected to this
One of the best ideas I’ve ever heard. No joke.
I'd watch it. Most of the cast is still alive, too. At least all the main characters thankfully.
Curb filled the Seinfeld void nicely for a while, similar style.
That’s a really good idea bro
That's basically what is done in the UK - certain series continue as Christmas specials. Only Fools and Horses is one of the most obvious examples.
The moral of the story is. Don't listen to critics.
I always thought the finale was intentionally crappy. Sort of a way of saying that if they kept going at that point that the show would’ve just been reaching for these wild premises and wouldn’t have been remembered as fondly as it has been. In other words, it was time to end it.
yeah but not that way
It felt like an indictment on the fans, that we were bad people for loving these bad people
Not just a fat guy, the late great John Pinette.
who cares? the finale sucked
I thought the finale was perfect. The rule at the beginning was, "No learning, no hugging at the end of any episode." So of course the end of the series must have no learning no hugging. The joke was on us. And Jerry and Larry played it perfectly.
I never thought of them as bad but I liked that the show tried to keep its integrity of what it was.
there's no integrity in a state that's allowed to get away with an unconstitutional law
I like it if you look at the end of Season 7 when Susan dies and they're all at the hospital. "Toxic glue huh? So who wants lunch?" It's almost a sitcom horror movie ending. They all engaged and ate lunch with this woman, she helped them try and get a pilot off the ground. All for less than 5 seconds of reaction to her death and back to their selfish back and forths.
The ending does actually kind of work.
At least you get it. The show was never idyllic. It mocked human selfishness, which has only gotten worse since 1998.
I don't think that the narrative that Seinfeld characters are bad was invented by the critics. Look at George, but not just him. Jerry not performing cpr and so on. Plus if you wanna dig deeper, the reason you can't see they were bad is because our society changed because of the series. And that is NOT coincidental
Last episodes are always tricky. Fans & producers want closure, but shows end because the juice is gone and a fin'ally is just trying to squeeze more out of it.
Such an underappreciated episode. It was genius. No other TV show in history had such memorable support characters, and so many of them, and the finale highlighted this accomplishment
They needed to release Seinfeld, Elaine, Kramer, and George at the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm, missed opportunity. The media would have gone bananas.
The finale was fantastic!
Make sense that will show about nothing would end on an episode about something
It was a good finale of the show had to end, but I just wish it had gone on for a few more seasons. I thoroughly enjoyed curb after Seinfeld ended, but it took a while to get used to
I totally understood the ending… but by that point we all fell in love with these selfish characters and didn’t see the need for punishment at that point. I love rewatching Elaine cuz she was the only female on tv without stigma of motherhood, children and marriage.. she just did her! Period! Loved it all
Thats an interesting angle i never realized about the no stigma
Oh, is she getting her 15 minutes again? Let me know when it's over...
The show was basically them doing bad things and that it built up to their fate
The Curb Your Enthusiasm finale got it right!
The finale was ingenious...the opportunity for viewers to get one last time at seeing some of the unique characters we all enjoyed...it was gold, Jerry, gold.
Everyone liked the finale, nobody liked that it was over
I didn’t. It just seemed too far removed from the series
People didn't like it, it wasn't well constructed but I loved the premise.
Nice fucking point dude. Really.
It was sad but extremely appropriate lol, I can't see it ending any other way
Wrong. I liked that it was over becuase the last season was falling off.
They weren't bad people just very self centered. We loved the show because there was a little piece of us in every episode..
Seinfeld finale 🤝 Curb Your Enthusiasm finale
Larry David came up with the idea and wrote the finale episode.
Both wrote it David Brigade
The finale was awful, them being treated as real criminals will always be ridiculous
The problem is that it was a show built on the premise that these characters are just like us, regular people. Not always all good. And then to punish them in the finale and call them bad in the finale was calling the viewer bad
larry wrote it not jerry
The so-called "Good Samaritan law", in this case, would not have held up in court since the perpetrator was armed with a gun, making it unreasonable to intervene.
Finale is funny
Susan was brutal. Jason Alexander had trouble working with Heidi Swedberg.
The ending was definitely terrible
" Its a show about nothing. " 😂
Surprised that Jerry was worried about what other people thought. If George was naked in the last episode that would have been enough.
If the Seinfeld crew deserves to go to jail than I dont wanna know what happens to the Always Sunny crew when that show ends 😂
They fixed it on Curb Finale. Loved when all of them were on Curb.
Seinfeld was as deep as a sheet of paper. It had its moments and clearly very successful but years on I have little interest in watching it ever again.
That’s Nikki Glaser, right?
Yea
There was no need to punish the audience either.
That's the truth. They were always just reflecting how most people naturally are. If THEY need to be punished, then society, as a whole, does, too.
The ending was okay original than all the other finales of other shows
“A fat guy” ??? Not just a guy, that was John Pinette
1. They never should have killed off Susan.
2. George and Susan should have just stayed friends like Jerry and Elaine.
3. They should have ended the series like the episode where they're all on the subway going to different destinations. They still could have still included everyone in the last episode.
THAT would have been the perfect finale❤
This sounds even worse than the actual finale
For sitcoms, by and large, the finale should be written for the fans, not the critics.
seinfeld’s “bad” finale gave people something to talk about for 30 years. Think about that
I liked when Jason Alexander talked about if there would be a scene where they finished their prison sentence they would meet at the coffee shop and the first thing that anyone would say would be George saying ,”that was brutal”
Years later, Nikki will apologize for basing her material 100% on sex
Retribution, not redemption.
I agree there was no need to punish them. It probably would’ve been funnier
Larry David wrote the final episode of Seinfeld.
I felt the show could’ve had a few more seasons, at least a season 10 to round out the even number and have one more season in the final year of the 90s so I can say I was born in the same year Seinfeld ended. That’s more of a me thing that last bit but still even tho it went on for 9 years and was before my time, still felt short lived and sad it didn’t have more eps. Although Curb came only 2 years after it ended and that’s super funny and who would’ve thought he would still make it today, although now that’s ending too sadly.
The finale, whatever it may have looked like, was never going to meet expectations.
I loved the finale and now Larry doubled-down with the Curb finale
WOW the public at large will accept anything. That finale was Stupid as hell.
Jerry probably never listened to the critics through the whole run of the show, then he did. It was a mistake. It happens.
Idk what people were expecting but I have no issues with the finale
The ending was beautiful but I wish they came back. Its way more funnier than friends and more original and the other day shows. As a new yorker it had me rolling and i think its because of the dark humor 😂😂
This is a case of overblown expectation that is probably impossible to satisfy. I don’t care if it’s not the “best” finale, the show is a classic that doesn’t rest on how good the finale is. The fact they went to prison is a funny concept that they had coming, honestly. They were terrible people, but I love them, anyway.
Call bullshit! I doubt Jerry Seinfeld wasted his time discussing anything from HIS show with HER!
Comedians in Cars Denying Genocide
The later seasons felt forced. The first 5 seasons of that show were amazing. The best Jerry, the best.
I have a feeling Larry David is heading for something like this for his own finale on CYE. His inappropriate comments and behavior are getting worse and more selfish, and people are reacting more pointedly.
Very few people remember that the "fat guy" who they got arrested over was the late, great John Pinette
I loved the finale, but honestly unless you go the coolie High/ Animal House route, how else would you end it?
The characters of it's always Sunny or terrible people and we don't even want to see them punished
Many of the episodes were based on tv critics reviews.
Downhill when Larry David left
Now you go to jail for trying to stop the crime.
I really loved the finale.
The fat guy in real life? Was a stand up comic, lots of fat jokes, he died very young
The fatal flaw of every Boomer. They turned it into a moral judgment.
BTW, "the fat guy" that she refers to but doesn't name is John Pinette, who was a massively talented comedian in his own right. He has a lot of great content on youtube. Sadly, he died too soon in 2014, at age fifty.
I loved the finale! People need to remember this was NOT the typical sitcom! The only thing I was hoping they would write one more episode of them getting out!
They should do a reboot as their all getting out of prison.
The finale of seinfeld is perfectly fine. Loved it!
The finale was great - they were pretty bad people. Fans just didn’t want to say goodbye.
I’ve always thought the finale was great and still love to watch it and laugh my butt off about it. The trial clearly shows what a depraved and self absorbed, egotistical, elitist group of maniacs they all four are 😅and them being thrown in prison for a life of Seinfeld insanity is utterly hilarious. But hey that’s me. Plus the Curb finale was a perfect TV ending for both LD and the Sein. So I’m good with all of that.
I liked the finale. No series before (or after, as far as I know) had ended with the main characters in jail: they always end up getting married, finding the job of their dreams, buying a new house...
Nevertheless, I've always felt something was missing... After the veredict... Like if the high point of the story, the tension and the drama had not been reached yet... Like there was one last joke or crazy moment left... They timing of the episode was weird...
I am not a fan of this episode but I love the series. My argument to them being bad people is this, all of the insensitive or selfish acts they committed they always got thier comeuppance at the end of every episode. They were always being punished for what they did but they weren't always bad people. They were just people who sometimes made bad decisions. I wish it had just ended with them in Jerry's apartment or the diner with the joke at the end. Larry David who also wrote the last episode made up for it in his great Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale were Larry goes to court, ends up in jail but at the end Jerry picks him up after the verdict is overturned and they both realize that's how Seinfeld should have ended. But I love them both and when I binge watch the series I just skip this episode and image them in Manhattan living their crazy lives.
I think them all ending up in jail is hilarious lol
I agree. I didn’t think it was a good ending at all. They were just people that showed the things everyone can experience at times. Going to jail was a silly ending. I hated it.
Everything came full circle.
I loved the last episode.
I feel like Curb fixed it all, in a weird way
Can we be honest? If it was funnier we wouldn't have cared what the premise was. While watching it (at the time) it felt forced and lacked the humour we loved from the other episodes.
the setup was a bit weak, but I didn’t mind the greatest-hits thing, but I really wish it hadn’t ended with them going to jail… how about they get acquitted on some frivolous, _Seinfeld_ -esque reason, or maybe the judge chokes to death on a Junior Mint or something, and the final scene is just them sitting at the coffee shop once again, talking about button placement?
I personally love the finally. Bringing back everyone to testify againt them and get them back was guinious and fit the shows tone. I was shocked when I heard long time ago people hated it. I was surprised.
So Jerry caved to the critics and she loved that? Makes no sense
I loved the finale. I love it more each time I watch it.
I didn’t like the ending at the time, but saw the 2 final eps not long ago and really liked the way it ended. I think it was just overall disappointment that the show was ending.
Love Seinfeld, but that last episode was weird for me.
Jerry was a bad person 😂